Download or read book Getting a Job written by Mark Granovetter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs demonstrates the importance of social connections and emphasizes how social activity influences labour markets. The importance of networking as a link between labour mobility and individual motivation is also studied.
Download or read book In the Long Run We re All Dead written by Timothy Lewis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Long Run We're All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint offers the first comprehensive scholarly account of this vital public policy issue. Lewis deftly analyzes the history of deficit finance from before Confederation through Canada's postwar Keynesianism to the retrenchment of the Mulroney and Chr�tien years. In doing so, he illuminates how the political conditions for Ottawa's deficit elimination in the 1990s materialized after over 20 consecutive years in the red, and how the decline of Canadian Keynesianism has made way for the emergence of politics organized around balanced budgets.
Download or read book Decolonizing Employment written by Shauna MacKinnon and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous North Americans continue to be overrepresented among those who are poor, unemployed, and with low levels of education. This has long been an issue of concern for Indigenous people and their allies and is now drawing the attention of government, business leaders, and others who know that this fast-growing population is a critical source of future labour. Shauna MacKinnon’s Decolonizing Employment: Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada’s Labour Market is a case study with lessons applicable to communities throughout North America. Her examination of Aboriginal labour market participation outlines the deeply damaging, intergenerational effects of colonial policies and describes how a neoliberal political economy serves to further exclude Indigenous North Americans. MacKinnon’s work demonstrates that a fundamental shift in policy is required. Long-term financial support for comprehensive, holistic education and training programs that integrate cultural reclamation and small supportive learning environments is needed if we are to improve social and economic outcomes and support the spiritual and emotional healing that Aboriginal learners tell us is of primary importance.
Download or read book Exalted Subjects written by Sunera Thobani and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing study, "Exalted Subjects" makes a contribution to the transformation of the racialized and gendered underpinnings of both nation and subject-formation.
Download or read book Identifying Models of National Urban Agendas written by Francesca Gelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas. Encompassing cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, it examines the changing global geography of national urban agendas since the second post-war period. The book demonstrates that whilst some discontinuities and differences exist between countries, they each demonstrate a common systematic investment in urban policies, that are considered as programmes of intervention and funding schemes for cities. Furthermore, in such programmes a political vision is evident which recognizes an important role for cities and urbanization processes at a national level. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, urban planning and public administration, as well as practitioners and policymakers at the national and local levels.
Download or read book Half A Job written by Chris Tilly and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date and in-depth analysis of a disquieting trend in the U.S. labor market.
Download or read book Canadian Social Policy written by Anne Westhues and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-09-20 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this new edition is the same as that of previous editions: to help students understand social policy from a Canadian perspective, and to stir them to discussion and debate. Part One provides a general overview of social policy and Part Two discusses the policy-making processes, from the international factors that influence them to the ways in which a social worker can become part of this process. Part Three focuses on current social policy issues, and Part Four offers a look to the future. Each chapter of this best-selling book has been thoroughly updated for this new edition with regard to current policy, debated issues, and resources cited. Three new chapters have been added, including an overview of adult mental health policy and a critical look at risk assessment in child welfare. There is also a discussion of current challenges to the Charter of Rights and Canadians increasing use of the justice system to shape social policy. As a result, the reader gains an informed perspective of policy development and evaluation. Although designed primarily for use by social workers, the book will benefit anyone who is involved in the policy-making process.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development Programme and Policy Recommendations written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the principal routes through which enterprise creation can have a positive impact on local economies.
Download or read book The Job Generation Controversy The Economic Myth of Small Business written by David Hirschberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes how the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), using erroneous data, have developed and perpetuated the belief that "small business creates all the new jobs". It shows further that, since the early 1990s, this belief has become a mantra for allowing the SBA and NBIF to lobby effectively for preferential treatment such as low-interest loans and exemption from mandated employee benefits and worker safety regulations.
Download or read book The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy written by Rune Ervik and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy makes an important contribution to the research about social policy of nation states that are increasingly integrated both in terms of socio-economic integration and in terms of membership of international organizations. The main strength of the book is to look at ideas and the way they travel between IO and nation states. This book is important for research in the field since it reviews the scattered literature and applies analytical perspectives to selected international organizations and their social policy recommendations. In some regards it explores new grounds and offers analyses, which may be an important contribution to an emerging scientific discussion on the role of international organizations and ideas in national welfare states. We lack analyses of various international organizations and their social policy recommendations. In this regard it is one of the first encompassing contributions in the field of IO and social policy. Klaus Armingeon, University of Berne, Switzerland This book considers the role of international organizations and their promotion of ideas and recommendations in social and health policy. It explores a wide range of organizations, scrutinizing their ideas-based content, their role as policy actors and their impact on national policy. What is the role of international organizations in the making of national social policy ideas and practices? What is the content of ideas advocated by international organizations? In examining these and other questions this book presents a range of international organizations dealing with social and health policies. The authors illustrate how welfare policy is shaped by the interplay between national and international policy-makers, focusing on the role of ideas rather than revisiting the more commonly discussed economic and technological issues associated with internationalization of welfare policy. They explore the content of ideas that international actors such as the EU and the OECD are promoting through recommendations and decrees concerning various systems of social policy. The possible effects of national and supranational welfare discourses on national welfare systems are also discussed. Dealing with both with the normative and cognitive dimensions of social and health policy discourses, this comprehensive book will prove invaluable to policy-makers as well practitioners within international organizations. It will also strongly appeal to scholars of international studies, public policy and social policy.
Download or read book Docklands written by Janet Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a sociological study of a community in transition and the impact of urban regeneration. The process of change on the Isle of Dogs is revealed from the differing perspectives of Islanders, developers and business, and yuppies attracted to the area. The book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in urban sociology, social geography, cultural and community studies, housing and urban planning, race and ethnic studies, and broader market including Open University courses, "A"-level courses and general interest.
Download or read book Working Schemes written by Phillip J O'Connell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, this book is an examination of the Irish experience with active labour market policy. This text looks at training in comparison with employment programmes and examines this in the context of strong and weak market orientation. The study is based on a survey which is used to analyze the effect of programme participation on short and long-term employment prospects and on income. The results show that market-orientation is a significant factor in employment scheme success, a factor that has not been taken into account in recent policy changes. The book also points out the applications of this sort of study in other European countries.
Download or read book Job Safety Health Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment Policies and Programmes in Central and Eastern Europe written by Martin Godfrey and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains country studies on Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine, and examines government responsibilities in relation to employment, ways of improving the labor market, and the financing of employment services and unemployment benefits.
Download or read book Trade Policy Agenda and Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program written by United States. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and published by . This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Employment Outlook 1998 June written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in the OECD area. This edition includes chapters on minimum wages, the transition from education to work, workforce ageing, and working hours. Reference statistics are included.
Download or read book A Plan for Growth and Prosperity written by Canada. Department of Finance and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents a new national economic plan to update priorities, set core policy directions, and guide future budget decisions. It proposes action on four fronts: creating opportunities for all Canadians, with a focus on early learning, post-secondary education, skilled work, inclusiveness for labour force participation, and closing the gap for Aboriginal peoples; advancing an innovative economy, including action in the areas of university-based research, private sector research & development and technology adoption, and commercialization of new technologies; positioning Canada at the centre of global commerce & networks, focussing on supporting open markets, foreign direct investment, global business networks, and world-class transportation & communication gateways; and building the right investment environment via maintaining Canada's fiscal advantage, improving tax system competitiveness, promoting efficient regulations & financial markets, improving government productivity, and promoting energy efficiency & environmental sustainability.
